Amber OHaver is the Chief Revolutionary Officer / Owner, Disability Revolution, LLC. She is the former director of the Indiana Statewide Independent Living Council. Prior to this, she worked as Deputy Director for accessABILITY, Center for Independent Living and as the Center’s Housing Program Manager. O’Haver started with accessABILITY as one of its Independent Living Advocates beginning in August 2011. Prior to her work with accessABILITY, O’Haver worked as a Disability Marketing and Patient Care Consultant for a medical supply company and as a Public Relations Specialist for the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana. O’Haver has worked and volunteered as a disability activist since 1997, the same year she acquired her own disability. Steadfast in fighting for the rights of her peers with disabilities, she is a member of the Back Home in Indiana Alliance Steering Committee and ADA-Indiana Steering Committee and serves as Chair of the Commission for Indiana Disability Rights (the state’s Protection & Advocacy organization). She was also appointed last year to the Indiana Commission on Rehabilitation Services and is its new Membership & Outreach Committee Chair. O’Haver also sits on the NASILC Board of Directors and serves as its Advocacy Committee Chair, the Indiana Institute on Disability and Community Consumer Advisory Council and is a Board of Directors Member for the Fair Housing Center of Central Indiana (FHCCI). In the past, she served on the Rehabilitation Hospital of Indiana Sports Program Board of Directors and the Mayor’s Advisory Council on Disability for Marion County. O’Haver received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Communications and completed her graduate course work in Public Relations at Ball State University. Amber lives in Avon, IN with her husband, Chad, and their adopted rescue dog, Nugget.
